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Asberry, Craig
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores the origins and content of strategic communication in the House of Representatives. Social science literature has established that congressional communication is mediated by various factors: ...
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Farrington, Alex
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
In this dissertation project, I introduce the concept of autonomous problem-solving and apply it to housing struggles in the United States. Autonomous problem-solving is a mode of collective action in which everyday people ...
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Abney, Margaret
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
During the 2011 Arab Spring protests, the Presidents of Egypt and Tunisia lost their seats as a result of popular protests. While protests occurred in Morocco during the same time, King Mohammed VI maintained his throne. ...
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Dunajeva, Jekatyerina
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
This dissertation seeks to unpack how the two dominant images--'bad Gypsies' and 'good Roma'--developed and are mobilized in formal and informal educational institutions in Hungary and Russia and how those are perceived ...
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Lukinova, Evgeniya
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
Standard models of decision making fail to explain the nature of the various important observed patterns of human behavior, e.g. "economic irrationality," demand for "sociality," risk tolerance and the preference of ...
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Steinmetz, John
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
The American movie industry did not have to develop into the Hollywood dream factory. There were educative, religious, explicitly political, and other non-commercial alternative arrangements to America’s film industry. ...
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Strickler, Jeremy
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
This project investigates how the emergent ideological, institutional, and political commitments of the national defense and security state shape the domestic programmatic agendas of modern presidents. Applying a historical ...
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Anili, Bruno, 1977-
(University of Oregon, 2010-12)
This project presents a critical engagement with the concept of ideology. It advances the view that political ideologies can be regarded as distinctive narrative styles and as such can be analyzed in their peculiar discursive ...
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Valk, Adrienne van der, 1975-
(University of Oregon, 2008-12)
Scholars of American history have chronicled ways in which federal level
response to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States was influenced by the
ideological and strategic conflict between Western and Soviet Bloc ...
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Durant, Timothy
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)
This research examines the dynamics and workings of bridging social capital through a comparison of the Cleveland and Portland City Clubs. Bridging social capital differs from most common conceptions of social capital ...
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Springer, Benedikt
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
Why do interstate barriers persist and proliferate in the US and go unnoticed by neoliberal policy-makers, while in other places, like the EU, they get systematically addressed? I challenge the common assumption that the ...
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Valdez, John
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
This dissertation investigates the social construction and discursive emergence of US nuclear weapons policy against the backdrop of the nuclear taboo and its associated anti-nuclear discourse. The analysis is drawn from ...
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Meechan, Shawna
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)
States recovering from violent ethnic conflict face many challenges in trying to rebuild. Primary among these challenges is how to best provide for the security of the people. In states that choose democratic regimes, ...
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Vincent, Jack Ernest
(University of Oregon, 1964-03)
This dissertation has two basic purposes: ( 1 ) to describe certain attitude patterns toward the United nations by the delegate members of Caucasian groups within the organization and (to closed parentheses to test a ...
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Sahr, Morris G.
(1953-06)
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Field, Gary R.
(University of Oregon, 1959-06)
This thesis cannot approach the magnitude of the research project suggested in the preceeding several paragraphs. A more manageable problem, and seemingly a necessary step leading to a more critical examination of city ...
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Cesario, Loryn Nicolle, 1984-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
This project explores the factors contributing to and hindering coalition building and cooperation between immigrant day laborers and the building trade unions in Portland, Oregon. The research is based on interviews with ...
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Smith, Ryan Atkinson, 1976-
(University of Oregon, 2009-12)
Considerable interest has emerged recently within U.S. policy scholarship toward deliberative democracy and its potential viability as a form of alternative democratic governance in resolving persistent policy dilemmas. ...
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Faherty, Michael
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
A belief that reducing the budget deficit is important has long been a matter of exceptional public consensus in the U.S. As a political issue, the budget deficit is often the framing issue around major policy debates in ...
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Çelebi, Mehmet
(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)
The history of Turkey since 2002 when it has been governed by Justice and Development Party (JDP) offers an interesting puzzle for the students of regime change. JDP, which has initially been hailed as the champion of ...
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